London: British Trust for Ornithology, 1938. Octavo, photographs, signature. Cover boards a little grubby and some spotting of endpapers, otherwise a very good copy. Reprinted with corrections from British Birds, Volume XXXI, Nos. 6, 7 and 8.More

Sydney: Reed, (1991. first edition). Quarto, colour photographs, dustwrapper. The photographs show all 16 species in the wild. Other chapters examine hearing and vision, hunting techniques and pellet production and there is also a chapter devoted to bush and camera techniques.More

Mountfield: Pica Press, (1999. first edition). Large octavo, 64 colour plates by Friedhelm Weick, signature, very good copy in dustwrapper. Owls is the most comprehensive book ever published on the group. It is not merely an identification guide, although it does this job handsomely; it is also an invaluable source... More

Melbourne: Lansdowne, 1980. Folio, 22 colour plates by Jeremy Boot, text illustrations. Publisher's brown full morocco, limited to 750 copies, numbered and signed by the authors and artist. This copy has the attractive signed lithograph (limited to 500 copies) of a Black-shouldered kite.More